Thank you for this Tessa, I take it as a good sign when I can't even tell who's side you're on. I just posted an analysis of Dr. Malone's lawsuit against the Breggins--no insider info, just looking at his own words and the logic of it. I'm just finishing the substack version now and I'll link to your article in it. In the end, I think we're in agreement--that a difference of opinions on ideology is not grounds for defamation. Here's the YT, Who is Robert Malone, Really? https://youtu.be/bgmntsarsOw. I'll post the Substack link when it's up.
This is one of the best things I’ve read in some time.
Thank you for feeding the soul. It’s like a barren wasteland out there, at times.
Your reminder to cultivate compassion, understanding, patience, and love—all the while maintaining one’s integrity and devotion to truth is a true balm. Good juju in a time of dark influences.
I feel better having read your words. I thank you again for your wonderful work.
Thank you!! Your words, in turn, made my smile ear to ear. Making each other feel good can be so easy for us human beings when the heart is in the right place. :)
I read the transcript of Dr. Mercola's recent interview with Dr. Malone over on that site. I was very curious as to what Dr. Malone had in mind for the "better future coming". Why Dr. Malone, of all people, interested me was precisely because of his use of the term "mass formation psychosis" which to me, though largely undefined and so somewhat of a slogan, perhaps could, if worked out correctly, coincide in meaning exactly to the term "psychic epidemic" used by the great psychiatrist/psychologist Carl Jung in, for example, his essay "The Undiscovered Self", first published around 1958.
Anyway, Malone's proposal for a better future is essentially something called decentralization, which to me does not seem to relate to fixing the vulnerability to a "mass formation psychosis" or a "psychic epidemic".
It has been well known scientifically for over a hundred years that we each have a shadow, a mental shadow. We are each a combination of light and shadow, and oscillate often between sense and senselessness. We generally each first recognize something that is in our shadow in a convenient "other", another person or collective entity. We literally project our own deficiency onto something outside of us, and the only way to improve the current situation is to have each of us mind our own shadow first, for the more we can do that the more likely we will see reality relatively objectively. We each are the only one that can integrate contents in our own shadow because we are each configured differently. What works for me most likely does not work for you, so I cannot assume I know what is best for you, let alone for everyone. And this shadow work is extremely difficult and often goes against the grain. However, Jung believed this individual way, which he called individuation, was the only way for the world to improve.
Tessa, you seem to have mastered a lot of this intuitively for yourself through your life's suffering. Take care. :)
If we decentralize, organizations like the WEF lose their influence. Local government is generally more responsive to the needs of their constituency. Having to deal with a tyrant is easier if you can relocate beyond their jurisdiction.
I think it was Stalin who said something to the effect that one death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.
This is now how our Cannibalistic OverLizards think of us, and increasingly how we think of each other. Get out of my way, there is an enormous shitpile that I am busy ascending.
The indifferent allow the passionate to commit atrocities. And 'passionate' is a polite way of describing people who've become fanatics to a particular cause.
I haven't had the pleasure of meeting Cannibalistic OverLizards... I hope I never will.
Passionate is indeed a little too polite I suppose. Zealous - as in zealotry - might be a better descriptor. Think witch-hunts and Inquisitors.
Cannibalistic OverLizards is my half-assed, so-far phrase to replace the often used "Predators". I don't like the term "Predators" for what I think we're describing. Just like I don't like the term "Elites" in its now-common usage for what it tends to describe.
A true predator is an awesome thing to behold and commands our respect, admiration and acceptance. A Grizzly bear, jaguar, wolf, fox, weasel or even shrew are all predators and play honorable and necessary roles in the tapestry of life on earth. They are part of the natural or "Given Order" of things beyond the miniature human realm.
Mutilated protoplasmic entities like Yuval Noah Harari or Tedros whatever-the-fuck-his-family-name-is are hardly predators. They specialize in eating their own kind, and for no demonstrably good or justifiable reason.
Language is everything in these matters, and its good to jam it on occasion.
"Cannibalistic Overlizards." Well put. Here in Kanada, we have Protection Rackateers, Do Good Zombie Herders AKA THe Subconscious Socialist Party, getting shit done, on the Island of Dr. Trudeau.
There used to be warrior-kings, whose claim to leadership was proven on the battlefield.
The leaders of today are from the owenership or intellectual class, and tend not to possess that level of physical prowess. That being said, Idi Amin was an exception to that rule. Or rather, His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.
The zealots I'm referring to are followers of the OverLizards, for reasons that are not clear to anyone outside of their club. They live among us and go unnoticed. Too late do we observe behavior that then results in an uh-oh moment.
Globally orchestrated 'decentralisation' is a form of lockdown.
The characteristic of the reversal mindset is to use words and actions to mask their opposite. The 'control agenda' spins out of a corrupted 'deep intelligence'.
This as true in the individual as the collective.
True intelligence is not secrets and lies set in mysteries of obfuscation.
Sounds good and completely rational. However, changing organizational structures and the rational laws supporting them seem to be no obstacle to the, albeit irrationally, inclined.
Technocrats are fond of implementing plans that are impractical. When people are forced to decentralize in order to survive, that is when change is more than a fad.
Love the last section of your post it really summed up the situation.
We overreached ourselves (with rational thinking), we were not content with the idea thinking rationally helped banish many unnecessary woes and mistakes, but we thought we could understand everything. Once you think you can understand everything your chances of understanding anything are remote (greatly reduced). This has been taken to hubristic extremes.
Sometimes prayer (in whatever way feels right to you) is the only immediate thing we have!!! That, and patience, and courage, and our love. Hugs to you!!
I exist in the covid/narrative dissident world and I have not yet encountered this big fight you are referring to. So maybe it is not such a big fight outside of some small intellectual circles.
Anyway I support what you're saying 100%, and I don't care for the "cancelling" tendencies of some of the people who claim to oppose cancel culture.
This is all Tessa's fault! If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't have learned of the spat between Malone and Breggin. Now everyone is fighting, everywhere, all the time!
Kudos to you Tessa for having the boldness to address the irrational and unnecessary fighting that is more due to ego, group-ism, and lazy thinking, than it is to intelligent concerns. As you point out we are all accountable for how we approach and address these disagreements. Wish we could get more who are unintentionally contributing to the problems to see what they are contributing to.
While i agree with your last sentence, I am surprised by your first statement. How is it possible that you have not been exposed to the "big fight" when it is literally almost everywhere you look. Perhaps there is a disconnect as to what the "big fight" is?
I am most certainly aware of the BIG "big fight" between the carefully curated "safe and effective" narrative and the realists, and I am firmly on the side of the realists.
In the particular blogs and sources that I follow - aside from Tessa - I have not so far encountered the spat between Robert Malone (who I don't read as much as I used to) and this Breggin fellow who I have never heard of.
I read Tessa, Charles Eisenstein, el gato malo, Eugyppius, various Twitter accounts, and a weekly discussion forum moderated by author John Michael Greer.
Oh Tessa! If you were the preacher I would go to church! Your funny story at the beginning really says it all, made me laugh yet it's deeply serious and made me look at myself
I think the key take away from this post might be that we should be more tolerant and pick our friends and enemies. wisely. "Think before you speak." should be written above the door of every classroom.
You wrote
" I wish upon them to eat each other the soonest and I have no fear of them."
This seems to be a reasonable wish for them that I can buy into. Sometimes I have darker thoughts on how we should handle them but I do not voice them because I do not want to become a catalyst for more negative emotion or acts and also see that my sensible side would not act on such thoughts even though I might feel the evil folk did deserve it and others might be less restrained and creative. Your middle ground is nice, let them be the pox on each other and leave us alone.
In light of the above perhaps the resistance has partially missed an opportunity these last 3 to 300 years. It strikes me that by default the 'elite' have more power than us and have little fear or us. Perhaps we want to do to them what they do to us. This idea did just come to be while reading your thoughts so you are an equal creator. I propose that every resistance fighter spend a portion of their effort on seeking handy ways to divide the enemy and pit them against each other. Not easy but perhaps it would be a million fold force multiplier if we get corrupt leaders to mistrust other leaders or industrialists to suspect other industrialists. If we could find every instance where Musk does something Bezos will not like and make a meme. Every thing that Macron criticises Trudeau about we make into big news. We keep publishing flaws of the elite as mentioned by the elite. Sure most of it is part of the theatre to make it look like they are not on the same team but 1:100 we might stumble on something that really gets under their skin, a promise made through the WEF and publicly broken, a industry taxed that was supposed to receive subsidies, something that touched them in their only sense organ, the wallet
Thank you, Kalle!! And I think they are so corrupt that I don't even need our help to artificially divide them. They are already living in fear of being found out, or punished, or eaten by a bigger predator. They have chosen to be this way, and there is a price for it. We can focus on whatever each of us feels our job is before the Creator, and be happy, and not get infected by their rotten energy of misery and fear.
Thanks for another excellent article Tessa. What we certainly don''t need is more division. I work hard at being a good listener and trying not to be judgmental leaving that to a higher power. It does require constant vigilance and a deliberate choice and commitment to love for all. It is not easy.
Thank you, William!! And you are right. It's not easy. But it's not like we have an option to allow ourselves to off rails with how we treat others, and then expect some kind of a victory over the bad guys. The bad guys' power directly depends on our bad habits, and starving them of the energy they need is a big part of the battle!!
I, too, have experienced tortures in my life. I went on to learn martial arts, meditation, and other fighting arts and that helped me. Before Malone ever talked about mass formation psychosis on Joe Rogan's show, I wrote a piece called Utopian Madness. I do think the elite manipulate the masses through mass psychosis but it is brought on by menticide. I think perhaps some of us, yourself included, are just too strong to be affected by it.
Joost Meerloo explains about menticide in his book, The Rape of the Mind:
“Menticide is an old crime against the human mind and spirit but systematized anew. It is an organized system of psychological intervention and judicial perversion through which a [ruling class] can imprint [their] own opportunistic thoughts upon the minds of those [they] plan to use and destroy.”
In order to accomplish this, the elite must manufacture waves of fear within the populace. Each wave is followed by a period of relative calm, but after each calm, the fear is brought back even stronger next time. We’ve experienced such a period of calm this summer. A respite from our prisons. We were allowed to go mask-less, to travel a bit more, gyms reopened. And now, everything is even worse. By the winter the waves of terror, in the form of ever worsening news, conflicting reports and downright lies, will become overwhelming.
Confusion has resulted in the minds of all of us experiencing these onslaughts. Desperately, we try to decipher the strange and terrifying things that are happening around us and to us.
Meerloo further explains:
“Each wave of terrorizing . . . creates its effects more easily – after a breathing spell – than the one that preceded it because people are still disturbed by their previous experience. Morality becomes lower and lower, and the psychological effects of each new propaganda campaign become stronger; it reaches a public already softened up.”
Emotion, without reasoned thought to temper it, becomes the automatic response and, we feel, justifiably so. Meerloo again:
“Logic can be met with logic, while illogic cannot—it confuses those who think straight. The Big Lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal … than logic and reason. While the [people] are still searching for a reasonable counterargument to the first lie, the totalitarians can assault [them]with another.”
If you feel like you are always one step behind the game, you are. We keep repeating to one another in horrified fashion “I can’t believe this is happening.” And the more we say that the more it normalizes the realization that these things we “can’t believe are happening” are happening. There becomes no answer other than to accept it.
Unless you live in a hut in the middle of the Amazon Forest (and that’s beginning to look very appealing) you cannot escape the onslaught. Every single person with a smart phone gives in to this repeated propaganda, even those who think they don’t, because unless we throw away our devices, we are under its power to constantly influence us. And I mean constantly. Very few people ever turn off their devices anymore. We have learned to be connected twenty-four/seven. Throwing away our devices is not an option for anyone who wants to survive let alone excel in modern society.
This realization creates the “killing of the mind.” No longer do people pause and reflect. This is a useless waste of time. There is nothing to reflect about and no one to reflect with.
Even those of us who think we are rebelling, continually repeat the same mantras on forums like Twitter of “I can’t believe this is happening.”
Thank you Heidi!! Sending you and your son blessings!! I think we all learn love without fear by having no choice but to learn it. It is not a very logical concept, it is a very helpful one but it lives in a different dimensions that linear logic so we learn it when we have to. Up to that point, we tend to argue with it. :))
I think I understand. I seem to have 2 settings - love with fear and numbness. A sort of detached love that makes me feel like a zombie but is undoubtedly more healthy. I curse my deep emotions on a regular basis.
I have clinical depression with suicidal ideation. My biggest triggers are love, fear of loss and feeling like a failure, which can cover numerous areas due to my self-loathing, self-sabotage.
I love your thoughtful posts. This one is especially inspiring, provoking a desire to be a better person for myself and others. Thank you.
Heidi, by how you speak, which is beautiful, you are anything BUT a failure. You are an important human being with a lot of say. Sometimes the universe tests us, tests us how hard we are willing to work for our dignity to prevail. But it is always about peace and joy in the end. Please, for your son and for the entire world, forget about any suicidal ideation. Every spiritual tradition tells us that there is no reduction in suffering that happens as a result, only an increase. So it is completely unpractical. Our ancestors were't stupid, they knew what it's about. So. I am sending you thoughts of strength and hope. Challenges are just lessons. There is great joy in looking at victories once they are accomplished, as impossible as they may have seemed.
Thank you for this Tessa, I take it as a good sign when I can't even tell who's side you're on. I just posted an analysis of Dr. Malone's lawsuit against the Breggins--no insider info, just looking at his own words and the logic of it. I'm just finishing the substack version now and I'll link to your article in it. In the end, I think we're in agreement--that a difference of opinions on ideology is not grounds for defamation. Here's the YT, Who is Robert Malone, Really? https://youtu.be/bgmntsarsOw. I'll post the Substack link when it's up.
Thank you Tereza!! I greatly look forward to reading / watching your analysis!
That's so kind of you, Tessa! Here is the Substack version: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/who-is-robert-malone-really
I’m so baffled by that one.
I haven’t taken the time to investigate.
It just seemed so odd to go after a fellow truth teller.
This is one of the best things I’ve read in some time.
Thank you for feeding the soul. It’s like a barren wasteland out there, at times.
Your reminder to cultivate compassion, understanding, patience, and love—all the while maintaining one’s integrity and devotion to truth is a true balm. Good juju in a time of dark influences.
I feel better having read your words. I thank you again for your wonderful work.
with Love, TFish
Thank you!! Your words, in turn, made my smile ear to ear. Making each other feel good can be so easy for us human beings when the heart is in the right place. :)
❤️
I read the transcript of Dr. Mercola's recent interview with Dr. Malone over on that site. I was very curious as to what Dr. Malone had in mind for the "better future coming". Why Dr. Malone, of all people, interested me was precisely because of his use of the term "mass formation psychosis" which to me, though largely undefined and so somewhat of a slogan, perhaps could, if worked out correctly, coincide in meaning exactly to the term "psychic epidemic" used by the great psychiatrist/psychologist Carl Jung in, for example, his essay "The Undiscovered Self", first published around 1958.
Anyway, Malone's proposal for a better future is essentially something called decentralization, which to me does not seem to relate to fixing the vulnerability to a "mass formation psychosis" or a "psychic epidemic".
It has been well known scientifically for over a hundred years that we each have a shadow, a mental shadow. We are each a combination of light and shadow, and oscillate often between sense and senselessness. We generally each first recognize something that is in our shadow in a convenient "other", another person or collective entity. We literally project our own deficiency onto something outside of us, and the only way to improve the current situation is to have each of us mind our own shadow first, for the more we can do that the more likely we will see reality relatively objectively. We each are the only one that can integrate contents in our own shadow because we are each configured differently. What works for me most likely does not work for you, so I cannot assume I know what is best for you, let alone for everyone. And this shadow work is extremely difficult and often goes against the grain. However, Jung believed this individual way, which he called individuation, was the only way for the world to improve.
Tessa, you seem to have mastered a lot of this intuitively for yourself through your life's suffering. Take care. :)
If we decentralize, organizations like the WEF lose their influence. Local government is generally more responsive to the needs of their constituency. Having to deal with a tyrant is easier if you can relocate beyond their jurisdiction.
Tell me if this makes sense:
Centralization breeds abstraction.
Abstraction breeds indifference.
Indifference ultimately breeds atrocities.
I think it was Stalin who said something to the effect that one death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.
This is now how our Cannibalistic OverLizards think of us, and increasingly how we think of each other. Get out of my way, there is an enormous shitpile that I am busy ascending.
Brilliant, Neo!
The indifferent allow the passionate to commit atrocities. And 'passionate' is a polite way of describing people who've become fanatics to a particular cause.
I haven't had the pleasure of meeting Cannibalistic OverLizards... I hope I never will.
Passionate is indeed a little too polite I suppose. Zealous - as in zealotry - might be a better descriptor. Think witch-hunts and Inquisitors.
Cannibalistic OverLizards is my half-assed, so-far phrase to replace the often used "Predators". I don't like the term "Predators" for what I think we're describing. Just like I don't like the term "Elites" in its now-common usage for what it tends to describe.
A true predator is an awesome thing to behold and commands our respect, admiration and acceptance. A Grizzly bear, jaguar, wolf, fox, weasel or even shrew are all predators and play honorable and necessary roles in the tapestry of life on earth. They are part of the natural or "Given Order" of things beyond the miniature human realm.
Mutilated protoplasmic entities like Yuval Noah Harari or Tedros whatever-the-fuck-his-family-name-is are hardly predators. They specialize in eating their own kind, and for no demonstrably good or justifiable reason.
Language is everything in these matters, and its good to jam it on occasion.
"Cannibalistic Overlizards." Well put. Here in Kanada, we have Protection Rackateers, Do Good Zombie Herders AKA THe Subconscious Socialist Party, getting shit done, on the Island of Dr. Trudeau.
There used to be warrior-kings, whose claim to leadership was proven on the battlefield.
The leaders of today are from the owenership or intellectual class, and tend not to possess that level of physical prowess. That being said, Idi Amin was an exception to that rule. Or rather, His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.
The zealots I'm referring to are followers of the OverLizards, for reasons that are not clear to anyone outside of their club. They live among us and go unnoticed. Too late do we observe behavior that then results in an uh-oh moment.
Globally orchestrated 'decentralisation' is a form of lockdown.
The characteristic of the reversal mindset is to use words and actions to mask their opposite. The 'control agenda' spins out of a corrupted 'deep intelligence'.
This as true in the individual as the collective.
True intelligence is not secrets and lies set in mysteries of obfuscation.
That is a plan bound to fail since it's not based on necessity.
Sounds good and completely rational. However, changing organizational structures and the rational laws supporting them seem to be no obstacle to the, albeit irrationally, inclined.
Technocrats are fond of implementing plans that are impractical. When people are forced to decentralize in order to survive, that is when change is more than a fad.
Love the last section of your post it really summed up the situation.
We overreached ourselves (with rational thinking), we were not content with the idea thinking rationally helped banish many unnecessary woes and mistakes, but we thought we could understand everything. Once you think you can understand everything your chances of understanding anything are remote (greatly reduced). This has been taken to hubristic extremes.
Thank you, Andrew, and yes!!
all that said, after 3 years of mass psychosis, I feel like that pig out of water.. swimming in it
there is no friendly way to exit this trauma for me. this is not the same world I grew up in, we live in a horror story.
Sometimes prayer (in whatever way feels right to you) is the only immediate thing we have!!! That, and patience, and courage, and our love. Hugs to you!!
When we become hateful and intolerant we become the symbol of the very thing we oppose. Tessa has described this beautifully.
I agree!!!!!! Exactly!!! That is it!! Thank you
You are a beautiful soul! Much love to you. Thank you for sharing your insight, information and love.
Jessanne, thank you, and love is what will lead us out of it!!
I exist in the covid/narrative dissident world and I have not yet encountered this big fight you are referring to. So maybe it is not such a big fight outside of some small intellectual circles.
Anyway I support what you're saying 100%, and I don't care for the "cancelling" tendencies of some of the people who claim to oppose cancel culture.
This is all Tessa's fault! If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't have learned of the spat between Malone and Breggin. Now everyone is fighting, everywhere, all the time!
Wow, Markael and Bob, you are giving me hope!! :)) It is all over the place in my circles, to my great chagrin. Thank you for cheering me up!! :)
Kudos to you Tessa for having the boldness to address the irrational and unnecessary fighting that is more due to ego, group-ism, and lazy thinking, than it is to intelligent concerns. As you point out we are all accountable for how we approach and address these disagreements. Wish we could get more who are unintentionally contributing to the problems to see what they are contributing to.
While i agree with your last sentence, I am surprised by your first statement. How is it possible that you have not been exposed to the "big fight" when it is literally almost everywhere you look. Perhaps there is a disconnect as to what the "big fight" is?
I am most certainly aware of the BIG "big fight" between the carefully curated "safe and effective" narrative and the realists, and I am firmly on the side of the realists.
In the particular blogs and sources that I follow - aside from Tessa - I have not so far encountered the spat between Robert Malone (who I don't read as much as I used to) and this Breggin fellow who I have never heard of.
I read Tessa, Charles Eisenstein, el gato malo, Eugyppius, various Twitter accounts, and a weekly discussion forum moderated by author John Michael Greer.
Music to my ears, and thank you!!
Understood. Thanks for the clarity.
Commentary still going strong:
https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/
On the subject of fights, I am aware of the spat between Steve Kirsch and virus deniers (the Baileys from NZ, Stefan Lanka, et. al)
This dispute can only be settled by doing the necessary scientific experiments. Debates won't cut it.
This hits home to my heart, gonna have to read and re-read it. Wow.
Thank you Marige! Your words, in turn, make me very happy. xo
Oh Tessa! If you were the preacher I would go to church! Your funny story at the beginning really says it all, made me laugh yet it's deeply serious and made me look at myself
That story still makes me laugh to this day! I was so baffled there for a second. :) And thank you!! :)
Thank you. Your humility is palpable.
I think the key take away from this post might be that we should be more tolerant and pick our friends and enemies. wisely. "Think before you speak." should be written above the door of every classroom.
You wrote
" I wish upon them to eat each other the soonest and I have no fear of them."
This seems to be a reasonable wish for them that I can buy into. Sometimes I have darker thoughts on how we should handle them but I do not voice them because I do not want to become a catalyst for more negative emotion or acts and also see that my sensible side would not act on such thoughts even though I might feel the evil folk did deserve it and others might be less restrained and creative. Your middle ground is nice, let them be the pox on each other and leave us alone.
In light of the above perhaps the resistance has partially missed an opportunity these last 3 to 300 years. It strikes me that by default the 'elite' have more power than us and have little fear or us. Perhaps we want to do to them what they do to us. This idea did just come to be while reading your thoughts so you are an equal creator. I propose that every resistance fighter spend a portion of their effort on seeking handy ways to divide the enemy and pit them against each other. Not easy but perhaps it would be a million fold force multiplier if we get corrupt leaders to mistrust other leaders or industrialists to suspect other industrialists. If we could find every instance where Musk does something Bezos will not like and make a meme. Every thing that Macron criticises Trudeau about we make into big news. We keep publishing flaws of the elite as mentioned by the elite. Sure most of it is part of the theatre to make it look like they are not on the same team but 1:100 we might stumble on something that really gets under their skin, a promise made through the WEF and publicly broken, a industry taxed that was supposed to receive subsidies, something that touched them in their only sense organ, the wallet
Thank you, Kalle!! And I think they are so corrupt that I don't even need our help to artificially divide them. They are already living in fear of being found out, or punished, or eaten by a bigger predator. They have chosen to be this way, and there is a price for it. We can focus on whatever each of us feels our job is before the Creator, and be happy, and not get infected by their rotten energy of misery and fear.
I believe the elite will eat themselves.
Not one of them wants to be ruled over by another.
The politicians that sold themselves and their countries out, Macron, Trudeau , Biden, Gavin, On and on.
They proved they are traitors.
So I personally believe, they will be picked off first.
No one likes a traitor, period.
So they all , as I see it, are walking around with WEF Targets on their backs.
Who is going to support their addiction to power?
If they kill off all us plebs?
Money isn’t their goal.
It’s power over.
They will grind themselves back into Hell.
Thanks for another excellent article Tessa. What we certainly don''t need is more division. I work hard at being a good listener and trying not to be judgmental leaving that to a higher power. It does require constant vigilance and a deliberate choice and commitment to love for all. It is not easy.
Thank you, William!! And you are right. It's not easy. But it's not like we have an option to allow ourselves to off rails with how we treat others, and then expect some kind of a victory over the bad guys. The bad guys' power directly depends on our bad habits, and starving them of the energy they need is a big part of the battle!!
Well said, Tessa. Appreciate your voice of reason very much!
Thank you, TnDoc!! xoxo
I enjoyed this read and relate to it.
I, too, have experienced tortures in my life. I went on to learn martial arts, meditation, and other fighting arts and that helped me. Before Malone ever talked about mass formation psychosis on Joe Rogan's show, I wrote a piece called Utopian Madness. I do think the elite manipulate the masses through mass psychosis but it is brought on by menticide. I think perhaps some of us, yourself included, are just too strong to be affected by it.
Joost Meerloo explains about menticide in his book, The Rape of the Mind:
“Menticide is an old crime against the human mind and spirit but systematized anew. It is an organized system of psychological intervention and judicial perversion through which a [ruling class] can imprint [their] own opportunistic thoughts upon the minds of those [they] plan to use and destroy.”
In order to accomplish this, the elite must manufacture waves of fear within the populace. Each wave is followed by a period of relative calm, but after each calm, the fear is brought back even stronger next time. We’ve experienced such a period of calm this summer. A respite from our prisons. We were allowed to go mask-less, to travel a bit more, gyms reopened. And now, everything is even worse. By the winter the waves of terror, in the form of ever worsening news, conflicting reports and downright lies, will become overwhelming.
Confusion has resulted in the minds of all of us experiencing these onslaughts. Desperately, we try to decipher the strange and terrifying things that are happening around us and to us.
Meerloo further explains:
“Each wave of terrorizing . . . creates its effects more easily – after a breathing spell – than the one that preceded it because people are still disturbed by their previous experience. Morality becomes lower and lower, and the psychological effects of each new propaganda campaign become stronger; it reaches a public already softened up.”
Emotion, without reasoned thought to temper it, becomes the automatic response and, we feel, justifiably so. Meerloo again:
“Logic can be met with logic, while illogic cannot—it confuses those who think straight. The Big Lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal … than logic and reason. While the [people] are still searching for a reasonable counterargument to the first lie, the totalitarians can assault [them]with another.”
If you feel like you are always one step behind the game, you are. We keep repeating to one another in horrified fashion “I can’t believe this is happening.” And the more we say that the more it normalizes the realization that these things we “can’t believe are happening” are happening. There becomes no answer other than to accept it.
Unless you live in a hut in the middle of the Amazon Forest (and that’s beginning to look very appealing) you cannot escape the onslaught. Every single person with a smart phone gives in to this repeated propaganda, even those who think they don’t, because unless we throw away our devices, we are under its power to constantly influence us. And I mean constantly. Very few people ever turn off their devices anymore. We have learned to be connected twenty-four/seven. Throwing away our devices is not an option for anyone who wants to survive let alone excel in modern society.
This realization creates the “killing of the mind.” No longer do people pause and reflect. This is a useless waste of time. There is nothing to reflect about and no one to reflect with.
Even those of us who think we are rebelling, continually repeat the same mantras on forums like Twitter of “I can’t believe this is happening.”
More here: https://khmezek.substack.com/p/utopian-madness
Wow, I'd risk a humble guess Meerloo himself would have been impressed by your seamless extrapolation of his insights to our here & now 🔥
🗨 We live in a world where people who are mostly normal are overseen by people who are anything but.
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This is beautiful. ❤ I'm so sorry for what you went through Tessa. 🙏😪⚘
How are you able to have Love without Fear?
I'm afraid every day for my son. I attribute it to my love for him; the same love that would wish it was me suffering instead of him.
Thank you Heidi!! Sending you and your son blessings!! I think we all learn love without fear by having no choice but to learn it. It is not a very logical concept, it is a very helpful one but it lives in a different dimensions that linear logic so we learn it when we have to. Up to that point, we tend to argue with it. :))
Thank you Tessa! Blessings to you. ❤
I think I understand. I seem to have 2 settings - love with fear and numbness. A sort of detached love that makes me feel like a zombie but is undoubtedly more healthy. I curse my deep emotions on a regular basis.
I have clinical depression with suicidal ideation. My biggest triggers are love, fear of loss and feeling like a failure, which can cover numerous areas due to my self-loathing, self-sabotage.
I love your thoughtful posts. This one is especially inspiring, provoking a desire to be a better person for myself and others. Thank you.
Heidi, by how you speak, which is beautiful, you are anything BUT a failure. You are an important human being with a lot of say. Sometimes the universe tests us, tests us how hard we are willing to work for our dignity to prevail. But it is always about peace and joy in the end. Please, for your son and for the entire world, forget about any suicidal ideation. Every spiritual tradition tells us that there is no reduction in suffering that happens as a result, only an increase. So it is completely unpractical. Our ancestors were't stupid, they knew what it's about. So. I am sending you thoughts of strength and hope. Challenges are just lessons. There is great joy in looking at victories once they are accomplished, as impossible as they may have seemed.
Thank you Tessa. 🙏💕
One of your best posts.
Thank you Linda!! xo
Brava!
Really well written.
Very timely for me.
I’m dealing with an emotional vacuum, dark hole of a person.
The type you described as the friend but starts the darkness …
I realized a couple days ago, that dealing with those that only want to forever be in drama, without solutions, and getting irritated.
is as futile as getting angry at the vacuum cord getting tangled around the dog bowl.
Best to just untangle and get on with it . Walk away.
Thank you, Jjule!!! I hope you find the wisest solution to your conundrum!! Hugs
💜💜💜. Thank you
That’s so kind of you.
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